The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday, urged people of the Southeast to start burying their dead bodies within three days.

In a statement by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, obtained by Daily Post, the IPOB alleged that the habit of keeping dead bodies in the mortuary for long was responsible for some of the challenges confronting the Southeast.

The group urged the Igbos to revert to the old ways of burying their dead or else it would compel mortuaries across the Southeast to shut down.

The statement reads partly: “The global movement and noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu wish to announce to all Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of Biafra freedom that it is high time Biafrans started burying our dead within three days as it was in ancient times.

“IPOB has gone too deep in the spiritual and finds out that keeping our dead ones for so long is contributing to the major problems of Ndigbo in these present times

“Our ancestors were burying their dead ones within three days, and that is our culture, and it helped our ancestors spiritually. Igbos have a very rich and spiritually based culture which our ancestors maintained from the beginning of time.

Daily Nigerian